Definition of "renounce" []

• To give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement. See Synonyms at relinquish. (verb-transitive)
• To reject; disown. (verb-transitive)
• Games To revoke in cards. (verb-intransitive)
• Games A revoke in cards. (noun)

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• "We were contemptible to attend to which Edgar Scott, a partial of of unequivocally prolonged standing, has motionless to renounce from a Society, given he feels which he can no longer have a prolonged expostulate home after cooking meetings."
• "What I renounce is relying on the proclamation of one language user (e.g.,"
• "And since it has been determined that love is service, and since to renounce is to serve, then Jees Uck, who was merely a woman of a swart-skinned breed, loved with a great love."